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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2021
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It's a shame there isn't a way to value helpful contributions to other forum users better than just counting likes.
For example - Fisherrman often takes the time to help folks with hardware/software issues and might get one or two likes.
Other prolific posters tell us what they ate for dinner or what they bought and get multiple likes.
SMH
For example - Fisherrman often takes the time to help folks with hardware/software issues and might get one or two likes.
Other prolific posters tell us what they ate for dinner or what they bought and get multiple likes.
SMH
A member can send a direct message to another member saying thank you for taking the time to help me, or whatever compliment one would like to extend, if one feels a simple thumbs up or post reply is not enough.
In my opinion, if a member is spending a lot of time here in order to get a bunch of likes etc. said member should look within and reevaluate what is really important in day to day life versus the superficiality of forum likes.
A kind pm goes a long way.
There are many helpful forum members here. Some provide technical help and that is it. Others provide help mixed with some levity at times, and many other forum members help provide camaraderie, emotional support, and a distraction to those that need to mentally get away from the stresses and strains of live for a little while.
While this forum is the based, there is much more happening here than tech questions and comments.
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That is true. My point was that while it is fun to keep tabs on post count and have a friendly back and forth with other members tracking posts, post counts and like totals are really meaningless. What really matters, is the character of the member and the (intent) of the words he or she puts forth.
I don't come here every day for the post count or the likes. I come here because of my fellow forum members. It's not important to me to get likes or any of the other stuff associated thereto. What matters to me, is providing help when I can, along with a laugh or two, or just tell someone I appreciate them.
Focus on what really matters and the rest will eventually take care of itself.
It isn't about egos.
Each member here adds to the site in his or her own way, whether you and I agree with it each time or not. I think you are making a lot out of nothing.
Have you personally thanked those who have been a help to you? If not, think about that, instead of trying to find fault in how other members posts, even though they aren't helping others with tech questions. Let others do what they do, and you worry about what you do. Problem solved.
LOL - I always thank folks that help and help others whenever I can
You seem to be making too much out of this
Glad to help you with your post count LOL
Maybe post counts should be reserved only for the technical areas of this site? A lot of post counts are accumulated in some of the community discussion subforums where indeed descriptions of what someone had for breakfast/lunch/dinner or what they had to drink, either with a meal or separately, or recipes provided in full detail are included..... I've also seen posts which in the old Usenet days and the era of "Netiquette" would have been strictly forbidden: something stuck into a thread which is nothing more than one or two words or maybe a sentence and that is it, often (usually) without meaningful content. Yet all of this gets counted towards a member's post count.
As for the "likes" thing, those can build up quickly on a member's account if he or she is an active participant in, say, the Digital Photography subforum and the very popular "Photo of the Day" thread that runs each month here. I am pretty sure that is where most of the "likes" I seem to have accumulated have been accrued!
But then we get into a situation which I daresay that for the most part the admins and mods probably don't really want to get tangled up in: trying to make value judgements about which posts are more "valuable" to the site as a whole and which aren't and why it is OK for "likes" to be readily accumulated in some instances when they may not be as meaningful as "likes" offered in other instances.....
Some situations are going to be pretty obvious: the one-liner post stating that a member has had a baloney sandwich with mustard for lunch really doesn't seem as meaningful as the one-liner post in one of the technical threads offering assistance with an actual, useful suggestion to a member who is experiencing an issue with his or her iPhone/iPad/Mac. Both demonstrate participation on the part of members, both take time to be written and to be read.... But the value quotient of each is significantly different, eh?
As for the "likes" thing, those can build up quickly on a member's account if he or she is an active participant in, say, the Digital Photography subforum and the very popular "Photo of the Day" thread that runs each month here. I am pretty sure that is where most of the "likes" I seem to have accumulated have been accrued!
But then we get into a situation which I daresay that for the most part the admins and mods probably don't really want to get tangled up in: trying to make value judgements about which posts are more "valuable" to the site as a whole and which aren't and why it is OK for "likes" to be readily accumulated in some instances when they may not be as meaningful as "likes" offered in other instances.....
Some situations are going to be pretty obvious: the one-liner post stating that a member has had a baloney sandwich with mustard for lunch really doesn't seem as meaningful as the one-liner post in one of the technical threads offering assistance with an actual, useful suggestion to a member who is experiencing an issue with his or her iPhone/iPad/Mac. Both demonstrate participation on the part of members, both take time to be written and to be read.... But the value quotient of each is significantly different, eh?
You are complaining about there not being enough recognition for those that help with technical problems. You made a point to belittle posts about recipes and the like.
All I tried to do is show how each person regardless of what you see and feel, adds value to the site in a variety of ways. If you are thanking people when you want to, I don't understand why you started with your post here.
"t's a shame there isn't a way to value helpful contributions to other forum users better than just counting likes.
For example - Fisherrman often takes the time to help folks with hardware/software issues and might get one or two likes.
Other prolific posters tell us what they ate for dinner or what they bought and get multiple likes.
SMH"
I have made my point and it seems you want to argue. I am done.
Thank you - every participant should contribute as they can - it's not just technical help that helps folks here
I engaged in this thread because it's a shame that folks' actual contribution to the various fora has no real metric here
You need to get a life? Lol.
But to be honest MR has become part of my daily life. It’s 4:38 am here and I can’t sleep. So what do I do? Pop on MR.
As for likes I’m not really one who looks at those. I don’t need to participate in a popularity competition. I’ll lose. If people like what I write, that’s fine. If they don’t that’s fine to. It’s just who I am.
The reason I have a high post count is the longer you participate on here the more people become friends. So you chat, you talk and that’s why I have a high number. But posting just to achieve a high post count (which is against the rules anyway) is pretty pointless. If you like being here then post away. If it’s not for you then don’t.
I also agree that we have some incredibly knowledgeable and helpful members on here. Very kind in the assistants they give.
Certainly more helpful than our IT manager who hates Macs. Kind of leaves you to resolve your own issues as punishment for not having a PC.
at the end of the day.......its just a forum and none of these metrics mean anything
Yep, that is exactly how it was for me.
For what it’s worth, I had a notation in my signature for a month, that I was the poster formerly known as Prince, I mean BasicGreatGuy. I guess no one pays attention to little old me. Maybe if I was in the top 10, my life would be different.
Sorry @Rogifan i just had to.
While a week may be a long time in politics (according to a former British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson), a month seems to be a very short time in an online life.
Thanks for putting this together! And holy smokes there are some people on here who post a boat load!!!
I would agree about a month being a short time span on the forum. It is a mere flash in the pan (as it were).
Actually, I hadn't spotted your signature signalling that your name had changed, so, mea culpa.
In fact, I rarely read signatures.
To be quite candid, it took @chown33's post to draw my attention to the change, but, at least, now, I am aware of it.
In fact, I rarely read signatures.
To be quite candid, it took @chown33's post to draw my attention to the change, but, at least, now, I am aware of it.
THEY MEAN EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just kidding... I could see see this being said by Gary Oldman in the movie "The Professional"...
That’s like saying my life is meaningless..... !
I should go home and rethink my life choices!
A "boat load" means a lot?
I think that you may find that a strange combination of the personal and the professional - not least, specific and particular domestic circumstances - may have been behind the steep rise in the posting habits of some of those of us who have high post counts.
This was certainly the case for me, in that, there was a distinct - and stark - co-relation between the time my mother was diagnosed with, and subsequently deteriorated from, dementia, a time when I had become responsible for her care - a period of time that lasted a number of years - and my increased post count, here.
THEY MEAN EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just kidding... I could see see this being said by Gary Oldman in the movie "The Professional"...
At the time, they mean everything, yes.